Mplsnurse

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1. Depressed self-referral to ED

   Mplsnurse replied to jana82's topic in General Nursing

   What state was this? She wasn't even combative? Restraining is a last resort.

2. How long is your commute?

   Mplsnurse replied to the nurse who lived's topic in General Nursing

   15 min each way this last year. 17 min each way for 13 yrs before that.

3. new grad with a psych degree, but no experience

   Mplsnurse replied to heynow1313's topic in Psychiatric

   I was hired as night charge right out of nursing school. I love psych. It's my "home". No way was I doing a year in med surg. When you know what you want you know what you want:) the psych unit I'm on now just hired a brand new 20 yr old nurse. Keep ...

4. My unit is closing!

   Mplsnurse replied to Mplsnurse's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you!

5. My unit is closing!

   Mplsnurse replied to Mplsnurse's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you! I'm thinking maybe cross train in mother baby, I hear good things about the unit. If my knee needs it I might grap that closed unit time to get my needed knee realignment. I got the other knee done a few years ago, it's an easy 3 months of...

6. My unit is closing!

   Mplsnurse replied to Mplsnurse's topic in General Nursing

   The pattern for this hospital so far is that they have been updating a few sections at a time. So far nurses have been displaced but kept and returned to their new unit. It's an old hospital.

7. Are private schools worth it? Or should I just wait...

   Mplsnurse replied to mroun91's topic in General Students

   If you live very cheaply like I did after becoming a nurse you could pay that off quick especially in California. I was so used to living off two dimes scraped together that I paid all my loans and saved 16,000 in my 403b very quickly. I went to priv...

8. passed Nclex just by using Uworld

   Mplsnurse replied to nurse2us's topic in NCLEX

   That's exactly how I feel about mosbys CD. I passed at 70-some questions, my exam was only like an hour I thought for sure I failed. I only did mosbys cd. Didn't read any other material, didn't pay for an expensive class. I got in there, filled up my...

9. My unit is closing!

   Mplsnurse posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi, I'm a psych nurse of 14 years. My unit is closing for 3-6 months to update it. It will be around summer 2016. Has this happened to anyone else? They don't have another psych unit to put me on. They said they'd cross train me. I was wondering if I...